November 10, 2009

It's hard to believe that in a mere 3 months Jayson & Dawn Nickols could have gathered all the materials and fabricated all the props for such a spectacular Cemetery - their First Haunt Ever! Chalk it up to beginner's luck, strong organizational skills ( Dawn journaled every phase of the project ), or an unusually keen / eerily glowing eye for detail; note the staggering array of Headstones, each Epitaph more elaborate & hilarious than the next, how they all pop thanks to Jayson's Chiaroscuro Lighting ... Nickols Manor far surpasses the typical rookie endeavor!

November 4, 2009

DJ Chris Birkett's passion for music is matched only by his passion for haunting, which he traces back over 23 years to the trio of Tombstones & makeshift Pumpkin Patch he was perhaps destined to assemble in 1986 ... Fast forward to Halloween 2001, swan song for the original Haunted Graveyard, which by then had moving markers and an opening & closing coffin; not 1 month after having supposedly put the Boneyard to rest, he and cousin Shawn Silberblatt somehow resigned themselves to creating ( or more accurately, replicating ) Halloween Town from Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas - in all its fluorescent glory! Chris adopted a Disney's Haunted Mansion theme in 2008, recycling several of his Halloween Town props to great effect ...

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An aggregate blog of Halloween displays throughout North America ... Want to promote your do-it-yourself display on Haunted Lawns? It's as easy as sending an email with a link to your website or any other pertinent information to hauntedlawns@gmail.com ... best of all it's FREE! The more folks contribute, the better HL gets ... Thanks Again & Happy Halloween!